Honkai 3(SEA)/3rd(Global) is a beat-em-up mobile game where almost every girl is a lesbian.

Previous thread: >>2774379

Story info (spoilers):https://archived.moe/u/thread/2580958/#2584964

Translated Manga:https://mangadex.org/manga/22297/honkai-impact-3rd

On the philosophy of homoism:Part1 - https://streamable.com/ad5rfPart2 - https://streamable.com/ib2pr

/u/ has an Armada on the American side of the Global version of the game. Note the app's armada search will only find exact case-sensitive matches.Discord for the Armada, but anybody is welcome. There's also a few EU and SEA players here: https://discord.gg/me5ssV7

>List of Armada;Global: LilyGardenID: 1295LilyGarden is on the US server in Global. You have to check the translucent button on the top right when logging in to see which one you are on as you may be sent to the EU server by default. You can also check the server's timezone at the top-left of the announcements window which should read GMT-5 if you are on the US server.Currently Tier IV with 20+ active /u/sers / ~30 active members, daily bosses, and a handy fuel chain in the warehouse.

Android: The google play store doesn't clearly tell you what version is available to you. The Global version is called "Honkai Impact 3rd", while SEA is called "Honkai Impact 3".If you are in the wrong region for the version you want to play, try QooApp (you can download its apk from the QooApp website) or a similar apk downloader where the different versions should be clearly marked.

iPhone: If your app store does not have the version you want you can get it by creating an itunes account in the region you want and switching to it on your phone. But you're probably better off just playing on PC with an emulator.

Android Emulator: This is by far the superior method of playing HI3 as keyboard or joystick controls are far more precise then poking at a phone and there's often enough action on-screen that even a big monitor doesn't cut it sometimes. Any emulator like Nox or MEmu should work but toasters will struggle and you may have issues like in-game CG scenes failing to display or glitchy sound and graphics.The Chinese emulator MuMu runs basically flawlessly and should allow you to run the game with no issues, as well as have proper analog joystick support if you'd like to use a controller. They recently released an official English version that comes with Google Play preinstalled, so it should be very easy to use. http://mumu.163.com/global/download/en/

For SEA players, you can also play Honkai via Tencent Gaming Buddy (TGB), available on the official site;http://asia.honkaiimpact3.com/

While you are in the login/elevator screen of the Global version there is a transparent button on the top-right which tells you which server you are connected to. It usually defaults to EU and you can click it to switch to US where most of /u/ is playing. Or if EU's timezones work better for you, you can just play there.

>>2814718Valentine's Story for an event back in 2017 on the CN's server;- MeiXKiana: https://pastebin.com/K08yb2ny- BronyaXKiana: https://pastebin.com/S0EJs60K- Fu HuaXHimeko (JiFu): https://pastebin.com/QQ1DZSMD

Stigmata Story;>Note that mihoyo removed this to replace it with a different story but I like this one better anyway- Ekaterina: https://pastebin.com/HRF04P9n

Jesus fucking christ, that defend Homu mission on 1st floor of 3rd level is nigh unbeatable. The little shit loses a quarter of its HP in one hit and you have to deal with the coffin bitch that either spawns two scythe zombies right in front of your Homu or fires up her her retarded lazor from the other side of the map. I have spent last three days trying to beat this stage alone and fuck, my ass is a volcano.

>>2815819I mean, it's still self insert. I can self insert myself in a Captain wanting his subordinates to be gay for each other. There's even an option to encourage Kallen to introduce herself to Sakura.

>>2817805>>2817812I like this CP due to their contrasting manner; ones a diligent iincho while the other is a drunkard teacher. Waiting for the story to progress to find out what happened to both of them is agonizing

>>2817197>>2817214>>2817257An anon from Vietnam said some players were angry when their local translation use the female term for the captain in their local language. Now imagine what will happen if the other server had this dorm event;

>>2818682Anon wasn't clear, but didn't mean that it was the Vietnamese one. That event they showed has only been in the Chinese version. The event that the Vietnamese version translated the captain's pronouns as female was Summer/Sweet Memories I think.

>>2819226As I recall it was some oldfag's lesson to youngsters about how a traditional or "true" Japanese man conducts romance. ie never stating their intentions directly but instead coming at the subject sideways through hints and implications.

Since the romance is in the implication that x is beautiful (because you are with me), you can replace the moon with any appropriate scenery and it keeps the same meaning.

Although I think half the romance in that scenario is meant to come from the act of lowering your defences and leaving yourself open to mockery and loss of face, in an imperial-court-like context where you must always be guarded in public because any slight weakness will be exploited by people who are ruthlessly trying to advance themselves. So that traditional form of romance lacks impact in most modern works which do not have that sort of hostile environment which was ubiquitous in traditional lit.

>>2819235>this means that Kallen explicitly used an old Japanese expression to confess to Sakura aka studying Japanese culture just to confess. >sasuga Kallen.Say, does the Chinese version have the same connotation as the Japanese ver? And can we expect this event on Global next year?

>>2819250Yes. Chinese is the original language though, remember.The Vietnamese version translated neutral terms as female where ours translated them as male, because their translators are smarter than ours.

>>2819254The Chinese version literally has Kallen say that in Japanese with Japanese text. So yeah.Those screenshots are actually of the English version on SEA.

I just got the game thanks to /u/ and after beating dark Bronya im seriously impressed. This is by far the best mobile game I know. To thank you I would like to use a friend invitation code if anybody wants. First one wins.

>>2819678So the /u/ Armada requires level 40. I'm only 13, should I just join any? Also looking for a friend and sensei, ID 101630827. I really just want to give back to /u/ for introducing me to this game.

Yes, they use up the drop rate and daily attemps. If you only play at night then to maximize your stamina consumption you should send the valks out in the morning; so by the time you sign in again at night they would have already finished the expedition and your stamina would also be full. And you are at level 15? then you should use the captain chips and level up quickly, save up crystal to pull only the things you need. You can ask the anons here for more info. Most of the things in this game can be farm for free actually, you just have to be patient.

Finally, have fun playing. Can I send you my friend request? I'm not in the /u/ armada, if you don't accept it then it's fine.

>>2819782Meanwhile I was grinding to 40 thinking it was to make sure applicants had a little experience and were committed, but this isn't /vg/ so volume of applicants from /u/ wouldn't need a filter like that and armada listing isn't private, of course. Well, in my defence there's a whole lot to take in when starting, especially in the middle of some events and tail end of others so I've been getting through that.

ID: 101629090 if anyone wants a friend and likewise, I only lurked around for a while out of interest since I hear it mentioned sometimes and the threads make a nice change of pace and people, so I gotta thank /u/. Tried it out a few days ago and got Phoenix without needing to start reroll hell so that settled it.

https://nemohokai.blog/2019/02/17/Looks like the 3.0 patch will raise the player (but not valk) level cap to 100, adds a new underwater openworld area, and adds loli combat pets including a pair of twins from the orphanage. Sounds like their story will lead up to Seele's.

At first I found its story to be really...wacky. Funny, but really wacky. And then came the ending. Suddenly everything made a whole lot of sense (if you knew what happened to Seele before the game's main story even start, that is). It was quite hard to believe that this is just an event, and not an actualy side-story of the main story.

I smiled when Bronya was united with Seele. The fact that it was just temporary sadden me but Bronya's determination to bring Seele back to the real world made me respect the girl more. But then come the pic-related part of the that scene.

Now, I myself never thought of the Captain as an self-insert. To me, she is her own character, with her own personality, strength and weakness. But after this scene. I just can't understand how anyone can consider her as their self-insert. Just look at this, even the mastermind behind all of this questioned her who she really was!

IMHO, there are two type of self-insert. One is the completely mute type and the other occasionally has a line or two (that ultimately doesn't matter whatsoever). Both of which require someone else in to story to "put word into their mouth". This is why I never found self-inserting appealing - you're either mute or you simply doesn't matter.

But this girl, this Captain? She had a ton load of dialogue in this event, her role was simply undeniable. How many people out there can actually say that they would do what she chose to do from A to Z? She not only "participated" in this event, she even "altered" it before it began (Swapping the roles of Alice and the Mad Hatter, taking the role of the "adventurer" (a role that I personally think was originally meat to be played by Mei, that's why Mei didn't actually have a role in this event)).My point is: I'm unable to comprehend how some people out there can self-insert themselves into the role of the Captain, given how "alive" she is.

>>2823247Yeah, the Sanguine Nights stuff sure has a delicate collar and arm. Maybe it's just seeing what I want but given the nature of going the messy plausible deniability non-entity route, that's what they want you to do anyway, so whatever. Then there's lines like this which was funny even before something tried to imply male later in the same scene, they just can't keep their story straight. Heh.

>>2823245>My point is: I'm unable to comprehend how some people out there can self-insert themselves into the role of the Captain, given how "alive" she is.I was going to add a quip about this to the above since as someone really new I've been enjoying the Sweet Memories event essentially lying about the sickly waifufag advertising and making Captain the joke third wheel character. What I can't understand is more directly how desperate people would have to be to think they were a romantic interest here. It's not even a matter of ambiguous lip service, "you" are actively ignored and left out of matters. It's a nice change to see characters falling over each other instead of a plank who's applauded for existing.

That said, Captain and "self-insert" is your standard train wreck that using a first-person non-entity character generates. It was certainly set up with the usual "we'll avoid alienating anyone by just not having a character model!" line of thought, but beyond that I couldn't really say what their intent was or how it's changed over time. I'm much too new for scathing commentary like I could give a certain other mobage's amusing mess of an evolution, but comatose characters make for awful writing and limit options, which they're clearly not interested in. So not by the definition of one-sided conversation dating sim trash "self-insert", but it was set up a little more heavily on that side than the old "empathy for a relatable character" concept of self-inserting that's lost to the waifu market's mindset.

>>2823245I had completely the opposite reaction to the captain part of that >>2817804scene. It looks like self-inserts 101 to me, but I don't want to get in to that discussion. More annoying to me is how it took the paradigm to a higher level by allowing the audience to insert whatever they wanted in to Seele and Bronya's heads. The double "perhaps" following a compliment forces you to make assumptions about what they think about the captain, and while a minority might assume those thoughts are plot-relevant, waifu and harem-fags will perceive it as a romantic flag and there's a 0% chance it wasn't written that way to cater to them.

I've got to stop here before I start ranting because there's a bunch of other reasons why this made me intensely angry. Partly because I didn't know captain was present through the first half. It's nice to see that it wasn't quite so traumatic for other /u/sers though.

>Fun gameplay>Nice character designs>Generic anime trope-ridden story>Cringey yuri character interactions>/u/ is the only board with a thread about the game, but no one ever talks about gameplay.Talk about wasted potential.

>>2823731>>2823726If you couldn't find what you need then you could always create a thread at /v/ or other platforms. You can even start said thread by briefly explaining why you think the gameplay is fun over there. Since you can call other people fags I don't see whats stopping you from doing it.

>>2823245You didn't play many dating sims, right? The captain is the exact copy of the usual dating sim protagonist. A loser who makes snarky comments sometimes and is useless about everything. But somehow, has a mysterious relationship with the girls, which usually means they're still useless but give support to the girls in some ways.The difference is that despite being useless, a loser and being made fun of the whole game, the dating sim protagonist gets the girl in the end, which would probably never happen to the captain.

What bothers me is using them in plot-related content which seems to be the event you're commenting (I play global). Since the captain isn't in the main story and isn't even mentioned, make me think what the hell they're trying to do. Also makes me think that canon events like Sakura Samsara would be less often or won't happen anymore.If the captain was just a self-insert for comedic stories like the current global, I wouldn't mind.

>>2823970These threads are pretty much Honkai General, Anon just wanted some (you)s.

>>2824074If you read cutscenes with Rita carefully, Global event also implies that things we see aren't just made up for kicks. I think that the captain is a side character not significant enough to be included in large scale operations, but when it comes to more low profile missions (events), they can contribute a little. And since the captain is an antithesis of generic pussy magnet protagonist, I find it refreshing enough to let it pass.

>>2824074>>2824095Events such as the Vampire one are non canon stories. Mostly used to pander waifufags and that kind of shit. The captain officially doesn't exist in the story, if something, the MC is Kiana...or Kallen, etc depending on what we are seeing.

>>2824131Like I said here >>2824074 the usual dating sim protagonist will always get rejected until the last events. Probably to make it more realistic to the loser nerd playing the game.Now sure, the captain will never get to that final phase and the game doesn't imply it'll have one, but players can imagine it in their head.Just like we imagine the girls marrying each other.By no confirming the captain as a potential love interest, they won't lose yuri fans, while still keeping the illusioned waifufags.

>>2824136>the usual dating sim protagonist will always get rejected until the last eventsThat couldn't be more wrong. Especially for dating sims or VNs, but even for typical harem manga, I feel like that's not a thing. Maybe you meant it in a different way and just worded it badly though. But the only one who gets easily rejected and/or treated as a joke, is the joke side-character type of character, not the protagonist.

>>2825509The protagonist is treated as a loser by all the girls except for the intended romantic events because they're supposed to play hard to get and be pure, I guess. Except for the usual yandere or childhood friend who will like the protagonist since the start. But even the childhood friend can be cold most of the game.Dating sims aren't really a proper romance, after all.

For personality, take Okazaki from Clannad and he's pretty much the same as the Captain.

>>2825535To me the Captain is a cute girl acting as a stand in for the players and will only appear in special fanservice segment as a token of appreciation to the players; they do not contribute to the story and any form to make them canon is bait and inside the players head only.

Also their power is proportional to their bank account, which is the reason they're there anyway.